My first camera was a Zenith E, some 52 years ago, a brilliant camera. I cannot remember the lens I had with it. Used for several years and at that time developed and printed my own photos, using a Zenith enlarger and loading my own film useful when you only wanted a few shots. Despite all the years of photography I have now decided to learn the correct way to do it with your help.
Another great video! Zenit TTL - Made in USSR - my first film camera from late 1970-s. I still have it, sitting dusty on a shelf. The lens is fixed (58mm) with ap 2. The Eastern block was full of them; they're heavy (nearly 2 lb of weight and tough as a tank!) and, given a decent film, not that bad at all (some great portraits). No excuses! Looking forward to the Zenit challenge :-) .
Well, believe it or not it was my first SLR camera back in 1977. It has 42mm threaded lens with the aperture pin and the cloth horizontal shutter. The early models did not have the pin for aperture so when you set the aperture the image comes dims to dark in the viewfinder. And yes it was made in Russia. Gemrman's had similar name Practica., similar to the original Asahi Pentax or Chinon.
Never actually had a Russian camera, but I have some Japanese Konicas which are mechanically OK but the light meters are gone. The upside is the lovely Hexanon lenses which come with them.
The first adjustable camera I had, in the 60s, was a russian Fed4l rangefinder camera, followed by a Practica and a Zenit. All of which were relatively affordable introductory cameras which, nevertheless, were capable of excellent results. Sadly all 3 have long since died due to mechanical failures caused by heavy use.
The Zenith E was a Soviet camera. I bought mine back in 1976. With over 40 years of taking photos and using a medium format camera nowadays, after many years of using Leicas, I have to say that the best photo I ever took, and which incidentally won a prize (the photo was taken in Chichicaztenango in Guatemala in 1979) was with this Zenith E. So much for all this modern, expensive and sophisticated equipment nowadays...
I also own a Zenit E and I have to admit that it is a very basic, but great camera. i absolutely love the results this camera produces in combination with the Helios 44M. Absolutely stunning. I have it with me more often than my Canon 80D
Zeinth is a russian camera. When i was a kid 14 y my father bought me one and a Praktica (obviously film cameras), because he wanted me to learn photography. He was a photographer, but me not. Well, i took some good worth pictures with those cameras in a line of 6 years with waste of a lot of film rolls (according to him), but i never made to become a photographer as he wished and he was a photographer. Not quite long ago, i decided to see what if i followed path my father wanted for me, bought some cameras with some not expensive lens and also one Nikon d3100 used. I learned in hard way how to bypass equipment limitations with a Canon SX60 HS (bridge camera in manual mode) and Nikon D3100, but now i can saw I'm quite enjoying much more my D3100 than D5500... spending time to get a shut of 14 megapixel worth as 24 megapixel or more. Don't get me wrong... I'm not a photographer, but a simple programmer spending free time after a "What IF" of my father. :)
I had 2 zenit first one was a 11 em the sensor was above the lens which was a pain because the meter was on the top of the camera and the other camera was the 12 ex but the sensor was in camera and when you have the correct exposure the two leds flashed but the both gave cracking photos and is a ideal starter camera as it was fully manual
I learned on my dad's old Zenit, and it was invaluable for me to practice with an all-manual camera, I think. I would go to the woods and shoot a roll or two, same scenes with different aperture & shutter settings, taking notes and keeping track of what I did in each photo, then (a week or two later, after I'd finally gotten the prints) I'd go back and examine each one, comparing the exposure, focus, etc. I believe that I just had one 50mm lens for this beast of a camera, which was limiting, but I really didn't really see it that way. I wonder if I still have that camera somewhere, though I haven't seen it in years...
What happened to the Zenit challenge? My very first SLR camera was a Zenith E, brilliant camera for learning the basics of photography. I got it back in 1977.
The Zenit was a great/cheap camera of the day .. bought an ex girlfriend 1 as she was doing a photography course at the time ....USSR made it had a Praktica/pentax ...screw mount .. but did some great film pics ..Thanks great channel
Great video guys,in this day and age of the "All singing & dancing camera's" I think sometimes we need to get back to basics and relearn the art of photography either by switching to manual and using prime lenses. I often leave my Nikon D810 at home, grab my 30 yr old Pentax ME super c/w 50mm f1.7 lens loaded up with some asa I 200 film and see what happens. I must admit that finding film seems to be increasingly difficult.
Indeed as below, the Zenit (late model TTL model i think, 1976-85) is a USSR (Soviet Union) camera probably made by Krasnogorsky Zavod (KMZ). The mount is a M42 screw mount and the KMZ Helios 44M lens (44 M => "M" standands for M42 mount version) is a 58mm lens f2, with 8 blades. This lens is sharp to very sharp and can be used on modern DSLR and mirrorless cameras like the Sony A7, Panasonic GH5, Olympus etc. The adapters M42 => MFT/NEX/EOS/... are cheap and run between 6€ and 25€. The camera's and lenses are easy to find on ebay.
I have been using my Canon 1100D with a nifty fifty only for about the last 6 months, exactly for the reasons you outline, limit myself to try and improve my photography.
My first camera was a Praktica MTL3 with a 50mm f1.8 Zeiss Tessar lens, built like a tank in East Germany and bought in December 1978 for my 21st Birthday. Fully manual with a match needle exposure meter. No auto modes. This was when you had to LEARN how to take photographs and understand the relationship between Film Speed, Shutter Speed and Aperture. I took some of my best photo's with this and scanned versions are still doing well in Club competitions even today. It also survived falling off the back of a scooter in Crete in 1980 with just a slight dent in the hotshoe. My mate who got me interested in photography, started with a Zenith EM. Perhaps a truer reflection of the abilities of both cameras would have been if you had limited yourselves to manual exposure, manual focusing and 400 ISO? This would have put the Canon and the Zenit(h) on a par with each other and IMHO would have been a truer comparison as the Zenit does not have any Auto modes (in fact some of the early ones required the use of a separate hand held meter,) and would have been restricted to a single film speed.
Dominic Smith a friend gave me a pristine 35mm made in West german Ballsessa,1957, someone's dad bought it after serving in Korea n the leather case is better leather than my boots.
@@wullieg7269 Yep. And you could also use them to set the Hyperfocal distance for landscape photography. I can hear hundreds of 'millenial' photographers asking 'hyper what?'
@@photodom2000 For landscape? What about wide angle lens on camera held above the head and fired up the motor drive. Our good old day solution for not having flip-out LCD screen and eye-tracking. I started out in the same year with a Nikon F2A and still recalled some of the problem solving and time wasted in doing things such as processing color prints, from the earliest chemicals. No preview, buy a MF with Polaroid Back. Need higher resolution or able to change film with different ASA/ISO, buy a MF with film backs. Silent shutter, buy a Leica. Motor drive, buy Nikon F2 or Canon F1. No TTL or automatic, buy incident, spot and/or flash meters. Large handle mount flashes with external battery pack. Buy top of the line SLR with different focusing screen option to avoid split image from black out, while using slow zooms. Not enough self training materials or sources. Buying and storing same batch of films & color print papers in the refrigerator. Smooth background? Buy a Nikon 105/135 DC lens, soft focus Canon 85 f/2.8 lens or soft focus filter. Buying a darkroom color analyzer from saving to print test strips or prints. Now, one's wonderful journey with shooting films today probably involved in buying any SLR of the past, including the most expensive ones and vintage lenses, for a song. Then scan the processed film with a DSLR. It is way different from the 'good' old days and much more similar to war stories without the horrors. Enjoyable for the younger generation, but I for one, don't have enough time to waste to revisit the past, since there are plenty of newer stuff waiting for me to explore. Personally, I rather shoot with my 12 years old Nikon D3 than my four decades old Nikon F2A or Hasselblad 500 C/M. :)
That Zenith camera is a Russian camera. The standard Helios 52mm f 2.0 lenses that used to come with them are notable for their bokeh bubbles. My first camera was a Zenith EM complete with leather case. They are available on Ebay for around £20. The lenses can be used on Mirrorless and Nikon cameras with the relevant adaptors.
@@deviceinboxru in the early 80's when I purchased my first 35mm camera the box clearly stated "zenith" obviously the camera body says zenit. The Russian vs Soviet thing well I guess you are correct. On the lens versions, some were M manual versions that stepped down the aperture whilst viewing for focusing. Some were A or auto versions that had a pin that always opened the aperture to the widest one whilst viewing. When the shutter was pressed the aperture would stop down to the chosen aperture. All the lenses were M42mm screw the same as the Zeiss lenses that were sold with the Praktica MTL cameras at the time.....forgive my Russian / Soviet blunder I am getting on a bit !. Cheers Ian.
Ah, so the pictures did not come out, han. OK, no problem. Love to learn photography with you guys, in all these free video tutorials. Thanks a lot. #theschoolofphotography is great to learn photography.
Did a bit of research. Zenit cameras are built in Krasnogorsk in Russia, just outside Moscow. They brought out their first DSLR in September last year. Equipped with a 35mm f/1.0 lens, it is priced at a staggering €5500. They try to mimic Leica. Can't see many of us rushing to the shops to buy one - ho well.
Airline baggage limits force ME to be creative .My holiday camera bag is a Tamrac adventure 7 - the bottom part of the bag is good for a Nikon D 7200 DSLR body , a flashgun and 2 lenses , a kit 18-140 lens , and a Sigma 10-20 f.3.5 lens - the the top of the bag is for passports and snacks - The Nikon 18-140 lens is probably the most versatile lens I have ever owned - everything from Nature to airshows can be covered by this gem , and the 10-20 lens covers , well, the wider side of life
Proposal for a new "challenge"; use your camera of choice with some vintage lenses! Like Canon FD, M42 screw mount, etc It is fun and they are not expensive (unless you go for a FD 85mm f1.2 .... or so).
Zenit's , along with the Praktica MTL5 were , and to a degree STILL ARE , the best cameras for budding photographers to " cut their teeth on " ( there's so much one can learn using a fully manual " brick " to take photos . IMHO , Too many people buy fancy cameras , with fancy lenses these days, only to use them on full auto !!!!! . I wonder if Marc remembers the first SLR ( lens And ERC combo) HE bought ?
Crop sensor Canon camera with 85mm prime limited to f4 vs a full frame Zenit film camera with a 58mm f2 in an overcast landscape where the focus is not on fast moving objects should give the decisive advantage to the Zenit which has more creative leeway...cheers from Jamaica from a film and digital user.
A friend of mine has an old Zenit, it's built like a tank! It'll still be taking pictures long after my DSLR has bitten the dust (as will my old Minolta X300).
School of photography? When you describe a 58mm Helios 44M lens as being a 44mm lens..? Doesn't inspire confidence I'm sorry to say, especially when you had to double check the name "Zenit" and not know that it's Russian. However I admire the ethos in limiting equipment BUT how much better this would have been if we could have seen some results from the film camera, so please do the challenge..!
Ha, this was a cheap buy at a boot sale and used for the first in this video. We concentrate on getting a photograph here and having fun whilst doing it. The photography geek thing is not our style I’m afraid, there’s other channels for those types of people. Glad you liked the video though.
My first camera was a Zenith E, some 52 years ago, a brilliant camera. I cannot remember the lens I had with it. Used for several years and at that time developed and printed my own photos, using a Zenith enlarger and loading my own film useful when you only wanted a few shots. Despite all the years of photography I have now decided to learn the correct way to do it with your help.
The same here, a gift from my parents on getting a few O levels. Eventually the shutter blind gave up. I think that the lens was a Helios 50mm.
Another great video! Zenit TTL - Made in USSR - my first film camera from late 1970-s. I still have it, sitting dusty on a shelf. The lens is fixed (58mm) with ap 2. The Eastern block was full of them; they're heavy (nearly 2 lb of weight and tough as a tank!) and, given a decent film, not that bad at all (some great portraits). No excuses! Looking forward to the Zenit challenge :-) .
Thanks Hanna 👍
Well, believe it or not it was my first SLR camera back in 1977. It has 42mm threaded lens with the aperture pin and the cloth horizontal shutter. The early models did not have the pin for aperture so when you set the aperture the image comes dims to dark in the viewfinder.
And yes it was made in Russia. Gemrman's had similar name Practica., similar to the original Asahi Pentax or Chinon.
Thanks for sharing 👍
Libor Krupica 👍🏻mine too
Never actually had a Russian camera, but I have some Japanese Konicas which are mechanically OK but the light meters are gone. The upside is the lovely Hexanon lenses which come with them.
The first adjustable camera I had, in the 60s, was a russian Fed4l rangefinder camera, followed by a Practica and a Zenit. All of which were relatively affordable introductory cameras which, nevertheless, were capable of excellent results. Sadly all 3 have long since died due to mechanical failures caused by heavy use.
The Zenith E was a Soviet camera. I bought mine back in 1976. With over 40 years of taking photos and using a medium format camera nowadays, after many years of using Leicas, I have to say that the best photo I ever took, and which incidentally won a prize (the photo was taken in Chichicaztenango in Guatemala in 1979) was with this Zenith E. So much for all this modern, expensive and sophisticated equipment nowadays...
Thanks for sharing 👍
I also own a Zenit E and I have to admit that it is a very basic, but great camera. i absolutely love the results this camera produces in combination with the Helios 44M. Absolutely stunning. I have it with me more often than my Canon 80D
Thank you very much
You're welcome 😊
44M lens is 58mm f2 lens, amazing lens
Zeinth is a russian camera. When i was a kid 14 y my father bought me one and a Praktica (obviously film cameras), because he wanted me to learn photography. He was a photographer, but me not. Well, i took some good worth pictures with those cameras in a line of 6 years with waste of a lot of film rolls (according to him), but i never made to become a photographer as he wished and he was a photographer.
Not quite long ago, i decided to see what if i followed path my father wanted for me, bought some cameras with some not expensive lens and also one Nikon d3100 used. I learned in hard way how to bypass equipment limitations with a Canon SX60 HS (bridge camera in manual mode) and Nikon D3100, but now i can saw I'm quite enjoying much more my D3100 than D5500... spending time to get a shut of 14 megapixel worth as 24 megapixel or more. Don't get me wrong... I'm not a photographer, but a simple programmer spending free time after a "What IF" of my father. :)
Thanks for sharing 👍
I had 2 zenit first one was a 11 em the sensor was above the lens which was a pain because the meter was on the top of the camera and the other camera was the 12 ex but the sensor was in camera and when you have the correct exposure the two leds flashed but the both gave cracking photos and is a ideal starter camera as it was fully manual
Thanks for sharing Philip 👍
My dad had a zenith. I used it on many vacations before buying my first digital in 2002. I loved it. It must be at my family's house.
I learned on my dad's old Zenit, and it was invaluable for me to practice with an all-manual camera, I think. I would go to the woods and shoot a roll or two, same scenes with different aperture & shutter settings, taking notes and keeping track of what I did in each photo, then (a week or two later, after I'd finally gotten the prints) I'd go back and examine each one, comparing the exposure, focus, etc. I believe that I just had one 50mm lens for this beast of a camera, which was limiting, but I really didn't really see it that way. I wonder if I still have that camera somewhere, though I haven't seen it in years...
Thanks for the story Kai, glad it brought back those memories 👍
The best way to improve…. Totally agree… fantastic video…love!!! Many more hours of minimal fun!!!
Glad you enjoyed it! 😊
What happened to the Zenit challenge? My very first SLR camera was a Zenith E, brilliant camera for learning the basics of photography. I got it back in 1977.
I think production on these were stopped early 2000's if I remember correctly! They may have been re-released with an updated version by now.
The Zenit was a great/cheap camera of the day .. bought an ex girlfriend 1 as she was doing a photography course at the time ....USSR made it had a Praktica/pentax ...screw mount .. but did some great film pics ..Thanks great channel
Thanks, glad you liked it 👍
I started 35mm in 1973 with a Zenith B, didn't even have a light meter! Used a hand held light meter and got some decent results.
my first SLR was a Zenit 3M with an 58mm prime lens. I bought it used from a Russian marine soldier in 1967, traded for a hand full of porn magazines.
Ha, one carefull owner 😂
Great video guys,in this day and age of the "All singing & dancing camera's" I think sometimes we need to get back to basics and relearn the art of photography either by switching to manual and using prime lenses. I often leave my Nikon D810 at home, grab my 30 yr old Pentax ME super c/w 50mm f1.7 lens loaded up with some asa I 200 film and see what happens. I must admit that finding film seems to be increasingly difficult.
Thanks for the comments, we'll be looking at film and processing in the Zenit challange vid 😊
Indeed as below, the Zenit (late model TTL model i think, 1976-85) is a USSR (Soviet Union) camera probably made by Krasnogorsky Zavod (KMZ). The mount is a M42 screw mount and the KMZ Helios 44M lens (44 M => "M" standands for M42 mount version) is a 58mm lens f2, with 8 blades. This lens is sharp to very sharp and can be used on modern DSLR and mirrorless cameras like the Sony A7, Panasonic GH5, Olympus etc. The adapters M42 => MFT/NEX/EOS/... are cheap and run between 6€ and 25€. The camera's and lenses are easy to find on ebay.
That's the info 😊👍
I have the Helios 85mm 1.5 - Love it so much, so much I might get the smaller one~
Thanks for the comments 👍
@@theschoolofphotography thx for the content : )
Great video 👍
Thanks 😊👍
Can I use the 85mm lens for Canon 600D? Also, why is 85mm lens limited to f4 on 1200D?
Felicitaciones un gran mensaje
I have been using my Canon 1100D with a nifty fifty only for about the last 6 months, exactly for the reasons you outline, limit myself to try and improve my photography.
Good to hear Rose 👍
My first camera was a Praktica MTL3 with a 50mm f1.8 Zeiss Tessar lens, built like a tank in East Germany and bought in December 1978 for my 21st Birthday. Fully manual with a match needle exposure meter. No auto modes. This was when you had to LEARN how to take photographs and understand the relationship between Film Speed, Shutter Speed and Aperture. I took some of my best photo's with this and scanned versions are still doing well in Club competitions even today. It also survived falling off the back of a scooter in Crete in 1980 with just a slight dent in the hotshoe. My mate who got me interested in photography, started with a Zenith EM. Perhaps a truer reflection of the abilities of both cameras would have been if you had limited yourselves to manual exposure, manual focusing and 400 ISO? This would have put the Canon and the Zenit(h) on a par with each other and IMHO would have been a truer comparison as the Zenit does not have any Auto modes (in fact some of the early ones required the use of a separate hand held meter,) and would have been restricted to a single film speed.
Thanks for sharing 👍
Dominic Smith a friend gave me a pristine 35mm made in West german Ballsessa,1957, someone's dad bought it after serving in Korea n the leather case is better leather than my boots.
Remember when lenses had d.o.f. scales?.
@@wullieg7269 Yep. And you could also use them to set the Hyperfocal distance for landscape photography. I can hear hundreds of 'millenial' photographers asking 'hyper what?'
@@photodom2000 For landscape? What about wide angle lens on camera held above the head and fired up the motor drive. Our good old day solution for not having flip-out LCD screen and eye-tracking.
I started out in the same year with a Nikon F2A and still recalled some of the problem solving and time wasted in doing things such as processing color prints, from the earliest chemicals.
No preview, buy a MF with Polaroid Back. Need higher resolution or able to change film with different ASA/ISO, buy a MF with film backs. Silent shutter, buy a Leica. Motor drive, buy Nikon F2 or Canon F1. No TTL or automatic, buy incident, spot and/or flash meters. Large handle mount flashes with external battery pack. Buy top of the line SLR with different focusing screen option to avoid split image from black out, while using slow zooms.
Not enough self training materials or sources. Buying and storing same batch of films & color print papers in the refrigerator. Smooth background? Buy a Nikon 105/135 DC lens, soft focus Canon 85 f/2.8 lens or soft focus filter. Buying a darkroom color analyzer from saving to print test strips or prints.
Now, one's wonderful journey with shooting films today probably involved in buying any SLR of the past, including the most expensive ones and vintage lenses, for a song. Then scan the processed film with a DSLR. It is way different from the 'good' old days and much more similar to war stories without the horrors.
Enjoyable for the younger generation, but I for one, don't have enough time to waste to revisit the past, since there are plenty of newer stuff waiting for me to explore. Personally, I rather shoot with my 12 years old Nikon D3 than my four decades old Nikon F2A or Hasselblad 500 C/M. :)
That Zenith camera is a Russian camera. The standard Helios 52mm f 2.0 lenses that used to come with them are notable for their bokeh bubbles. My first camera was a Zenith EM complete with leather case. They are available on Ebay for around £20. The lenses can be used on Mirrorless and Nikon cameras with the relevant adaptors.
Thanks for the info Ian 👍
Thanks for the info Ian 👍
@@deviceinboxru in the early 80's when I purchased my first 35mm camera the box clearly stated "zenith" obviously the camera body says zenit. The Russian vs Soviet thing well I guess you are correct. On the lens versions, some were M manual versions that stepped down the aperture whilst viewing for focusing. Some were A or auto versions that had a pin that always opened the aperture to the widest one whilst viewing. When the shutter was pressed the aperture would stop down to the chosen aperture. All the lenses were M42mm screw the same as the Zeiss lenses that were sold with the Praktica MTL cameras at the time.....forgive my Russian / Soviet blunder I am getting on a bit !.
Cheers Ian.
I have a Helios 44m. Use it with my Nikon d5600. Takes a few shots to get it right but it’s a solid lens and has a following on line.
Thanks for sharing 👍
Ah, so the pictures did not come out, han. OK, no problem. Love to learn photography with you guys, in all these free video tutorials. Thanks a lot. #theschoolofphotography is great to learn photography.
You're welcome, glad you liked the video
Is this the New Forest? Thanks, good work.
Thanks Peter. Yes it's the New Forest 👍
Thank you - thought so. I lived in Fordingbridge for many years. Lovely spot.
Did a bit of research. Zenit cameras are built in Krasnogorsk in Russia, just outside Moscow. They brought out their first DSLR in September last year. Equipped with a 35mm f/1.0 lens, it is priced at a staggering €5500. They try to mimic Leica. Can't see many of us rushing to the shops to buy one - ho well.
Blimey, that's good to know, thanks for sharing this 👍
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Airline baggage limits force ME to be creative .My holiday camera bag is a Tamrac adventure 7 - the bottom part of the bag is good for a Nikon D 7200 DSLR body , a flashgun and 2 lenses , a kit 18-140 lens , and a Sigma 10-20 f.3.5 lens - the the top of the bag is for passports and snacks - The Nikon 18-140 lens is probably the most versatile lens I have ever owned - everything from Nature to airshows can be covered by this gem , and the 10-20 lens covers , well, the wider side of life
Helios 44 is not a 44mm lens. It's a 58mm lens. Helios 44-2 gives the most swirly bokey.
Thanks for sharing Neil 👍
Had that camera many moons ago and still use the Helios lens that came with it on my Canon 5Dmk2.
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Love the tree shot.
Thanks Micheal 😊
An excellent video! Just proves you don't need to splash out to get great shots 😁
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Great video, you never disappoint !
Thanks Thomas, appreciate the comments 😊
Proposal for a new "challenge"; use your camera of choice with some vintage lenses!
Like Canon FD, M42 screw mount, etc It is fun and they are not expensive (unless you go for a FD 85mm f1.2 .... or so).
Like that idea 👍
Do you teach how to actually use an SLR?
Hi, yes, check out our online courses at www.theschoolofphotography.com
Thanks
Canon 85 is a killer lens on any body.
Great video... Helios 44m is a 58mm f2 lens.
Yap. That is correct.
Thanks, appreciate the comments 👍
Zenit's , along with the Praktica MTL5 were , and to a degree STILL ARE , the best cameras for budding photographers to " cut their teeth on " ( there's so much one can learn using a fully manual " brick " to take photos . IMHO , Too many people buy fancy cameras , with fancy lenses these days, only to use them on full auto !!!!! .
I wonder if Marc remembers the first SLR ( lens And ERC combo) HE bought ?
4:51 guy in background was like: I'm out
Ha, he was as well 😂
Love your videos...♥
Thanks, appreciate the comments 👍
Where's Aarons Photo's?
Explained at the end Dominic, thanks :)
@@theschoolofphotography Oops. Missed that bit. But why did he use a 17 year old film when you can still buy film today?
It was just a matter of grabbing a cheap old camera and using up some film he had in the cupboard I think.
Peter Mckinnon did this! Except he did it to sell some cameras 😂
thank you for controlling my gas
very good an inspiring video thanks
You're welcome, glad you liked it 😊
Crop sensor Canon camera with 85mm prime limited to f4 vs a full frame Zenit film camera with a 58mm f2 in an overcast landscape where the focus is not on fast moving objects should give the decisive advantage to the Zenit which has more creative leeway...cheers from Jamaica from a film and digital user.
You can always meter off the grass if you don't have a grey card handy.
Yes it is Russian, I started off with one in the 60s
Thanks for the comments 👍
Where is a zeniths photos?
Hi, it's explained at the end of the video. Thanks
Being skint means I have no option but to limit my equipment...
It's the way forward!! 😊👍
Lol at 4:50
Holy shmokeesss thanks for the like @school of photography
The guy in the background at (roughly) 5:8 :-)
Great video again guys. The Zenith 35mm camera is indeed Russian. Started production in 1952.
A friend of mine has an old Zenit, it's built like a tank! It'll still be taking pictures long after my DSLR has bitten the dust (as will my old Minolta X300).
Thanks Nick, appreciate the comments 👍
it is russian , i use to have one
Thanks for sharing 👍
Zenit camera's are produced in the Soviet Union. Great video!
Thanks for the comments Gary 👍
Brokenback mountain day out
finger crosed is pagan belived
School of photography? When you describe a 58mm Helios 44M lens as being a 44mm lens..? Doesn't inspire confidence I'm sorry to say, especially when you had to double check the name "Zenit" and not know that it's Russian. However I admire the ethos in limiting equipment BUT how much better this would have been if we could have seen some results from the film camera, so please do the challenge..!
Ha, this was a cheap buy at a boot sale and used for the first in this video. We concentrate on getting a photograph here and having fun whilst doing it. The photography geek thing is not our style I’m afraid, there’s other channels for those types of people. Glad you liked the video though.
Why use 17 yo film?